culpe

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noun

blameworthiness; fault

OriginFrench coulpe ← Latin culpa →
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Meanings

nounculpe (uncountable)
  1. obsoleteuncountableblameworthiness; fault

    Banished out of the realme […] without culpe.

    a. 1548 (date written), Edward Hall, Richard Grafton, “(please specify the part of the work)”, in The Vnion of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre & Yorke, […], London: […] Richardi Graftoni […], published 1548, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Latinculpa
  2. Frenchcoulpe
  3. Englishculpe

From French coulpe, from Latin culpa. Compare culpable, culprit.

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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